Week on the web: Ice Cream Sandwich looks delicious

It's a potpourri of the week's biggest stories.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the App Store: Apple's locked-down app store has attracted the ire of Android and free software partisans for its restrictions on user freedom. But app stores can be good for users—so long as they are made more transparent and accountable.

Can AMD survive Bulldozer's disappointing debut?: AMD has bet its next few years of CPU building on the brand-new Bulldozer architecture, but benchmarks of the new chips have been downright disappointing. AMD has been through this before, though; here's how the situation might improve.